Sikkim Travel Coverage

THE herders sauntered down the trail toward us, a single black yak lumbering in front of them. They wore faded jackets and grimy rubber boots. Daggers in leather sheaths dangled from their belts. Dhan Bahadur ran up to greet them. Only 19 years...

THE Himalayas are to other mountains what wild animals are to those kept penned in a zoo. Vast and solid though they are, they have a curious insubstantiality, the ability to lose themselves behind clouds, to appear, then disappear again in seconds...